Place of birth: United Kingdom

Nationality: British

Appointed since 2013

QUALIFICATIONS

• University Education at New College, Oxford and Harvard Law School
• Called to the Bar of England and Wales, 1970
• Barrister at 3 Essex Court (now 20 Essex Street) practising principally in commercial law, including shipping, insurance, banking, private and public international law, and arbitration law, 1970-1993
• Appointed Queen’s Counsel, 1981

BAR, JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE

• Chairman of COMBAR, 1992-1993;
• Judge, High Court of England and Wales (sitting predominantly in the Commercial Court), 1993 – 2000;
• Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court, High Court of England and Wales, 1998 – 1999;
• Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, 2000 – 2013;
• Treasurer of the Honour Society of the Inner Temple, 2005;
• Professor of International Commercial Law, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013;
• Appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal, Cayman Islands, 2013;
• Arbitrator, International Commercial Arbitration, practice primarily in London, but also in Hong Kong and Singapore;
• Trustee of BIICL (British Institute of International and Comparative Law), 2003 – 2012;
• Visiting Jones Day Professor of Commercial Law, Singapore Management University, 2015

MEMBERSHIPS

• Chairman, Advisory Council, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, QMUL, 2003 to date;
• Honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford;
• Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London;
• President of BILA (British Insurance Law Association), 2007;
• President of the Harvard Law School Association of the UK, 2002 to date;
• Director, London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1986 – 2014